Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eager. In Charlotte, N.C., a draft board got a letter: "I have wrote the board two are three time for my paper and I have not heard them yet. I would love to know what in the hell is the meadow. I wish you would hurry and send for me to stand my examination for my hand is burnin to shuit a gun. Have you lost my wrecked are what I want, my class card, please. I am looking to hear it soon...
...past he had started from various towns, 200 to 300 miles away. This year he started from Rosario, 205 miles above the capital. For three days & nights he churned and paddled-past San Pedro, past Baradero, past Uriburu, past Campana. At each river town he was greeted with crowds eager to cheer on their beloved "Shark of Quilla Creek." At Point San Ysidro, only twelve miles from Buenos Aires, the upstream tidal current began to force him back. After two futile hours, Pedro Candioti gave up. When he was hauled out of the river he instantly fell fast asleep. Pedro...
...most, if not all, of that comfortable sum represented advances from Lewis' United Mine Workers in the days when Lewis and C.I.O. were synonymous-and both eager to organize steel. Lewis and C.I.O. split over the very issue that now swells U.S.A.'s net worth: whether U.M.W.'s advances were repayable loans or gifts for the then-common cause...
...oats, and young Mencken joined the Y.M.C.A. There he learned to distrust "Christian endeavor in all its forms" and moved hastily on to Baltimore Polytechnic. The Polytechnic taught him 1) that philanthropy was "a purely imaginary quantity, like demi-virginity or one glass of beer," and 2) that the eager curiosity of growing boys was not to be satisfied by anatomy classes in which "all the abdomen south of the umbilicus was represented by a smooth and quite uneventful surface...
...abandoned. The Japs had the Marines at the mercy of well-placed mortars and the Marines could not bring their machine guns to bear. Before the order came to withdraw, the Marines were near panic: "This was a distressing sight, and though I myself was more than eager to be away from that spot, I had a helpless desire to do something to stop the flight. ... I couldn't do anything about it because I was caught up in the general feeling...